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Blessings,

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

December!

Here is the final month of the calendar! Whoo-hoo! Another year finished!

Here's November.

September.
October.

More out-takes.

Here are some out-takes...

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

August.

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

July. I love the fireworks!

Lisa

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

Here's June. I definitely think Allison is much better at this.lol Her collages just look better.

Lisa

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

Here's May.

Christmas Calendar layouts 2007

Here's the month of February. Allison really has a knack for this, especially the backgrounds.

Lisa

Here are my youngest and oldest playing together. Allison loves M&M's so she was eating them for Isaac, who prefers Ghiradelli.lol

We finished our learning today by doing M&M math. Genevieve really got a kick out of this. I just used markers to make patterns that she was to recreate with her candy.

She was so proud of her work today. I love the look on her face!

Lisa

Today we used the Picture Book Activities curriculum that I got this week. We read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom because we've been working on the alphabet. After we read the book I had the kids work on forming letters out of playdough, while I began carving letters out of potatoes. After they had finished with the playdough, I gave them some watered down tempura paint in paper plates and let them do some stamp art. They LOVED this activity! They ended up painting for a good 20 minutes and even came back to it a couple of times before I cleaned it up. Jon wanted me to cut an apple in half to show the littles the star but both littles didn't understand the concept and Isaac ended up eating his side and Evie painted her whole side.lol After this we broke for lunch and will probably try doing a few more of the activities listed for this book later. One thing I've noticed about actually using this book is that the activities really only contain supplies that I really have on hand. The only thing I don't have today is coconut for the baking section and that's because my little ones don't like it, so we'll skip that activity or maybe just make the cookies without it.

It's been a pretty fun day!

Oh and yesterday I did finish making the cranberry relish and coleslaw. Hopefully they are enjoying it right now. The kids game was forfeited by the other team so they just had practice and we ended up having Larry's Giant Subs for dinner to preserve my sanity.lol Today's dinner is Ham and Bean soup that I've already got simmering on the stove. The older kids have PE in a little while and are working on the lapbook right now. So far, so good.

Lisa

Here is our first foray into finger painting. As you can tell, Genevieve found the process quite disgusting.lol
Isaac, on the other hand, was quite a natural. I didn't even have to show him what to do. Of course, next time I'll give him a bigger piece of paper...lol

Here he is, before he got so messy that he had to be bathed.lol

Lisa

Here are the two little ones playing in the rain that collected in the lid of their sandbox. This is right before the downpour hit.lol

The attack of the little people!lol They had Allison pretty good.

Allison Working on a "Wedding Cake"

Jon and Genevieve being goofballs and enjoying the new playdough.

Here's Isaac's new hair cut. He can now see. It's amazing that my mom could cut so straight with the amount of wiggling this guy achieved during the whole procedure.lol


Here he is again. I just love this guy!


Here is Queen Genevieve. She has been playing with her dress up clothes every day. Allison put her hair up and took the picture.

I just have to say that Genevieve really cracks me up. She is the first child of ours that has to have a different story read to her each night. The first two always wanted the same stories over and over, til I thought if I had to read it one more time, I'd go crazy.lol Not this one! She will run over to our vast selection each night and say, "This is my favorite story, will you read it? " and it'll be something we've never read.lol

blessings,

Lisa

I just had to upload this picture. LOL My two middle children are playing computer together, what a great older brother Genevieve has!



Here are the two youngest, roaming the forbidden zone. LOL I've been gating the kitchen off but was baking bread today and let them enter in order to "help" me.


Blessings,

Lisa

So, this is the cover that we put on our patio so the little ones can play even when it's really hot. The little ones love it! (And our older kids love the big pool in the background.)

















And here is my oldest daughter, Allison, and my wonderful dh, Eric.

Here's my little cheer leader, Genevieve! She just loves dressing up.




Here's my oldest son, Jonathan, sporting his new hair do. I buzzed him this week and he's really enjoying it in this heat. He was replacing the batteries on a crib toy for Isaac in this picture. He's such a good big brother!